Thread by @patio11

I got reminded by the renewal email that it’s been a year of paying @ByrneHobart so let me make an unsolicited plug:

diff.substack.com one of my very best sources of analysis, shower thoughts, and intellectual frameworks over course of last year, and improving over time.

https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1230854445379899393

Speaking of which: one of my big surprises over the last few years has been increasing exposure to internal analyses and/or products designed to move the behavior of high-status institutions, and...

You could pay $100k for reports that are much less useful than a single Substack

It’s well-known in e.g. the intelligence community that everyone reads the same New York Times but there is a driving conceit there that so-called Open Source Intelligence only has say 90% of the good stuff.

And yet, on topics of deep societal interest, over and over again:

The “official” expert briefing is something with great presentation value and which observes all the forms and tips hat to the right institutions.

And it’s worse than an effortpost on Reddit. Like, worse than a specific one, with URL available.

I have a particular deliverable fixed in mind here because the dozens of credited authors decided to bullshit their way through multiple topics on which I am a no-arguments-allowed-even-by-imposter-syndrome actual insider and domain expert, but this seems to happen frequently.